Wanted to know the name of the bird through snazzy photographs – that may well become a reality with the latest website from Cornell; it is no ordinary website and promises to identify the species right down to the genus from the photos.
The Visipedia research project and the
Cornell Lab of Ornithology has come together in an unique project that
have put together various photographs of birds on a site which can
identify the species from the photo itself.
Known as the Merlin Bird Photo ID, the
identifier will sift through hundreds of photos to actually point out
the close to 400 species of birds commonly seen in the US and Canada. It
gets the name of the bird correct in the first three attempts itself.
The experience and accuracy will improve when more people come on board.
The technology and logic behind it is
quite simple. The user uploads a photo and enters when and where the
photo was captured; then the user draws a box around the bird and clicks
on the bill, tail and the eye.
In seconds, the website identifier looks
at the pixels and comes up with powerful artificial intelligence magic
with millions of data points. After mapping the data points, they come
up with the likely species name – including photos and song.
Merlin’s powers are due to hard work as
it recognizes species from thousands of images identified and labelled
by users. It actually relies on 70 million sightings recorded by the
ornithologists and bird enthusiasts on eBird.org database.
It narrows on the options using the
location and time of year when the photo image was taken. It is used for
free and can be used on PCs and not mobile devices. Once the team comes
up with the smartphone ready then the team will add it to the Merlin
Bird ID app.
Source : thestandarddaily
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